And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson