"An answer in words is delusive; it..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.”

“Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.”

“I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.”

“The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.”

“Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.”

“It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.”

“Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”

“I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.”

“Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.”