Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
Ralph Waldo Emerson