But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPower obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson