Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson