The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBut a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.
Ralph Waldo Emerson