The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson