The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson