Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
Ralph Waldo EmersonAccept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson