❝ “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
❝ “The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
❝ “Come out of your warm, angular house, resounding with few voices, into the chill, grand, instantaneous night, with such a Presence as a full moon in the clouds.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
❝ “Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
❝ “If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
❝ “Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.” Ralph Waldo Emerson