Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, and no force of character can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door, and say, ‘Come out unto us.’ But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me, I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act. “What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.