In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
Ralph Waldo EmersonCause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed
Ralph Waldo Emerson