Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSuch is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.
Ralph Waldo Emerson