Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEverything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDon't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson