Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament
Ralph Waldo Emerson