The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson