This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower
Ralph Waldo EmersonA new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."
Ralph Waldo Emerson