Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson