In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
Source: Uncollected Lectures, 'Resources.'
-- 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.