Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo EmersonVirtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGood as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson