In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson