I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBooks are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson