We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?
Ralph Waldo Emerson