What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAlthough 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 Emerson