As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.
Ralph Waldo EmersonReligion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson