I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.
- William Carey
Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
- Stephen Covey
Love as content is in the habit of limiting formal patterns. The same goes for faith. After all, there are only so many adequate manifestations for truly strong sentiments; which, in the end, is what explains rituals.
- Joseph Brodsky
The antidote to this abuse of formal government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
he is filled with the solemn intoxication that comes of intricate ritual faultlessly performed.