There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHe is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson