• Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, North Atlantic Books