The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHow shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?
Ralph Waldo Emerson