Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThese are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.
Ralph Waldo Emerson