I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
Ralph Waldo Emerson