In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSome of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson