Nails

“[Emerson] had a gift of the picturesque phrase, but too often it is empty of meaning. He is a nimble skater who cuts elegant and complicated figures on a surface of frozen platitudes. Perhaps he would have been a better writer if he had not been quite so good a man.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

“It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“New York is a sucked orange.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson