• Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.213