"The sermon which I write inquisitive of..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.”

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

“Literature is eavesdropping.”

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

“I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.”

“An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.”

“I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.”

“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”

“No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.”