Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTruth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHow cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
Ralph Waldo Emerson