We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGenius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson