Emerson
- Intellect
Yet when we write with ease and come out into the free air of thought, we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to contrive this communication at pleasure.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Intellect
As all men have some access to primary truth, so all have some art or power of communication in their head, but only in the artist does it descend into the hand.
R. W. Emerson
- Intellect
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Compensation
Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
