The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe 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 EmersonTen percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson