No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSociety 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 EmersonNature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
Ralph Waldo Emerson