A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGetting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMan 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 Emerson