We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSome thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?
Ralph Waldo Emerson