What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
Ralph Waldo EmersonAccept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHistory is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson