It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson