No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only he can give, whohas; he only can create, who is. The man on whom the soul descends, through whom the soul speaks, alone can teach. Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach; and every man can open his door to these angels, and they shall bring him the gift of tongues. But the man who aims to speak as books enable, as synods use, as the fashion guides, and as interest commands, babbles. Let him hush.
Ralph Waldo Emerson