And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
"If you shoot at a king you must kill him."
"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
"Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness."
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"Only so much of life do I know as I have lived."