The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it. Could any man conduct into me the pure stream of that which he pretends to be! Long afterwards, I find that quality elsewhere which he promised me.