Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBut do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSpeak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson