There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMan is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThis knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson