“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

I seem to quote him often.

Ralph Waldo Emerson remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. "In all my lectures", he wrote, "I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist.