Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBeing perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
Ralph Waldo Emerson