Quotations from
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.