Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGod said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson