You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.
Ralph Waldo Emerson