Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson