All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property: but its value is flowing like water. It requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask.
Do what you are afraid to do.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, – all duties even.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy. Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Besides why should we be cowed by the name of Action? “Tis a trick of the senses,” – no more. We know that the ancestor of every action is a thought. To think is to act.
