He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson