There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson