
Don’t think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! In the next room, who spoke so clear and emphatic? Good Heaven! It is he! It is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for weeks has done nothing but eat when you were by, that now rolls out these words like bell-strokes. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful or bold, then, he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882