I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBooks take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson