Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
Ralph Waldo EmersonAn answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson