All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.
Ralph Waldo Emerson