Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
Ralph Waldo EmersonHe who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson