It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBeauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.
Ralph Waldo Emerson