An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson