A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAs I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into the infinite space, I become happy in my universal relations. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign & accidental. I am the heir of uncontained beauty and power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson