Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGood bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine
Ralph Waldo EmersonConservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson