Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFriendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
Ralph Waldo Emerson