As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
