War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLet the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAs the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson