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• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosophe...
• Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
  -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 From The Conduct of Life , by Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....
• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
  With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do....
• I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for youin your private heart is true for all men- that is genius.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...