Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMan is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEnglish history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
Ralph Waldo Emerson