“The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've even survived. But what torments of grief you've endured from evils which never arrived - Ralph Waldo Emerson”

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)”

“Nature and books belong to all who see them.”

“Turn the eye upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture, though you have seen it any time these twenty years!”

“The world belongs to the energetic.”

“There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much.”