Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWithout looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson