To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLet none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson