It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson