There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBut the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson