A sect or a party is an elegant incognito, devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Source: Journals, 1909-14, entry for 20 Jun 1831.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.