Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.
Ralph Waldo EmersonCharacter is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThat which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
Ralph Waldo Emerson