Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
Ralph Waldo EmersonCities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNext to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
Ralph Waldo Emerson