"There is more difference in the quality..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.”

“Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.”

“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.”

“If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.”

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”

“I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.”

“After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.”

“Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.”

“There is only good art and mediocre art.”