Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

All mankind love a lover.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.