I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPerpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGod may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson