Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThat which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
Ralph Waldo Emerson