Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHe cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.
Ralph Waldo EmersonVery few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson