There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFew people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson