Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.
Ralph Waldo Emerson