Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.