The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOf the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson