I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.
Ralph Waldo Emerson