There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
Interpretation
Love, knowledge, and beauty are limitless and cannot be measured by excess.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the true values of love, knowledge, and beauty transcend conventional boundaries and limitations. Unlike material possessions or achievements, these profound aspects of life do not have a surplus; they are infinite in potential and can continuously enrich our lives without decline.
In practice
During a speech on the importance of arts and education, one could reference this quote to emphasize the boundless nature of creativity.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.
Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.β -I did nothing for you.β -You loved me and your love made me--human.
If I could for a moment just inspire you to love yourself, that would be worth EVERYTHING
Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.
...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.
If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
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