The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson