The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLive in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
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