Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson