An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Ralph Waldo Emerson