In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson