The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGreat is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson