Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPassion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson