Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPrivate, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson