An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNumbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson