There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSpoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson