The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson