Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson