For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.
Ralph Waldo Emerson