The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
Ralph Waldo Emerson