In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
Ralph Waldo Emerson'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'
Ralph Waldo EmersonThis valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBut I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson