Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDivine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson