"A vivid thought brings the power to..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.”

“A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

“The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.”

“To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.”

“Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.”

“In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.”

“Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.”

“I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.”

“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.”