A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
Ralph Waldo EmersonVivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPrudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTruth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson