The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEmancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSociety never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson