Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

All diseases run into one. Old age.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Music causes us to think eloquently.