We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSolitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWith each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent
Ralph Waldo Emerson