A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
Ralph Waldo Emerson