"The secrets of life are not shown..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.”

“Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.”

“For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.”

“I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.”

“Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.”

“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...”

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!”

“She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.”

“If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.”