Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson