Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTake the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
Ralph Waldo Emerson