Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyoneย Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.
Ralph Waldo Emerson