Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGive the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLife is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson