The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDo not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson