A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
They say there is a tune which is forbidden to be played in the European armies because it makes the Swiss desert, since it reminds them so forcibly of their hills and home. I have heard many Swiss tunes played in college. Balancing between getting and not getting a hard lesson, a breath of fragrant […]
A nation never falls but by suicide.
I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
He with holds his name. At the hotel, he is hardly willing to whisper it to the clerk at the book-office. If he gives you his private address on a card it is like an avowal of friendship; and his bearing, on being introduced, is cold, even though he is seeking your acquaintance, and is […]
I stayed in London till I had become acquainted with all the styles of face in the street, and till I had found the suburbs and then straggling houses on each end of the city. Then I took a cab, left my farewell cards, and came home. I saw Alison, Thackeray, Cobden, Tennyson, Bailey, Marston, […]
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
