"When a man thinks happily, he finds..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.”

“No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.”

“So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.”

“Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.”

“The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.”

“If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.”

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

“Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!”

“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.”