My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson