Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThey who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.
Ralph Waldo EmersonVanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson