Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
Ralph Waldo EmersonExplore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson