We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
Ralph Waldo Emerson