Clergyman's

“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The less government we have, the better, — the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is our dictionary.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson