At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHow we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson