When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is c… - 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.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent: All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows...