This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson