It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
Ralph Waldo EmersonPublic opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSuccess goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
Ralph Waldo Emerson