Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature, instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day exists for us, shines in on us at unawares, but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer's boy, stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.