No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson