A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson