I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
Ralph Waldo Emerson