Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOther men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson