And every thought the happy summer brings
To the pure spirit is a word of God.
—Coleridge.
Thrust an Emerson into any Concord, and his pungent presence will penetrate the entire region. Soon all who come within the radius of his life respond to his presence as flowers and trees respond with boughs, brilliant and fragrant, to the sunshine. After a little, each Emerson stands girt about with Hawthornes, Whittiers, Holmeses and Lowells.
—Newell Dwight Hillis.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
—Edward Everett Hale.
The nobler life is just as possible to us all as that which is ignoble. The moment one will assert his freedom from petty cares, perplexities, troubles, and anxieties, that moment they fall off of themselves.
—A Study of Mrs. Browning, Lilian Whiting.
He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent even though he knows he is in the right.