"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

Source: Northanger Abbey (1817)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness

Source: Endymion (1818)

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Source: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky:

Source: Poems in Two Volumes, My Heart Leaps Up (1807)

God made the country, and man made the town.

Source: The Task (1785)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote