There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDon't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson