Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWho makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?
Ralph Waldo EmersonHenceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson