The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
Ralph Waldo EmersonSlavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.
Ralph Waldo Emerson