I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBut there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyoneย Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson