Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could s — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — "Let there be truth between us two forevermore"."

"Everything intercepts us from ourselves."

"We do not count a mans years until he has nothing else to count."

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered."

"No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too."

"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"yes is a pleasant country... love is a deeper season than reason"

"true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who"

"What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way."

"Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flower Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God! God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!"

"Unchanged within, to see all changed without, Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt. Yet why at others Wanings shouldst thou fret? Then only mightst thou feel a just regret, Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy light In selfish forethought of neglect and slight."