Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Jika saya membuat undang-undang untuk Shaker ata...

"Jika saya membuat undang-undang untuk Shaker atau sekolah, saya harus memberi setiap hari Sabtu semua kata yang mereka gunakan untuk melaporkan pengalaman keagamaan, sebagai "kehidupan spiritual," "Tuhan," "jiwa," "salib," dll, dan jika mereka tidak dapat menemukan yang baru minggu depan, mereka mungkin tetap diam."

--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Versi Bahasa Inggris

If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.