Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson