Quote #256
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
- A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
- The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
- Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
- The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
- The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.