If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the c… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

I launch eagerly into this resounding tumult.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.