Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.Henry David Thoreau