Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson