"A beautiful woman is a picture which..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.”

“Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.”

“Children are all foreigners.”

“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.”

“The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.”

“Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.”

“If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.”

“The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.”

“And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.”