Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHe then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson