Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson