Familiar Quotations , 10th ed. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. Page 621 Ralph Waldo Emerson. In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed. Shallow men believe in luck.
Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. We boil at different degrees. Works and Days.