Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMany a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson