A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
Ralph Waldo Emerson