Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson