We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Source: Nature, Addresses and Lectures, The Method of Nature, 1849.
-- 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.