Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThis book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAnd so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson