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
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.Henry David Thoreau
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.C. S. Lewis