"He walks abreast with his days and..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.”

“Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.”

“When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.”

“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

“It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old are weak, feel their mortality, and think that they have measured the strength of man. They will not boast; they will be frank and humble. Well, let them have the few poor comforts they can keep. Humility is still a very human virtue. They look back on life, and so see not into the future. The prospect of the young is forward and unbounded, mingling the future with the present.”

“Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.”

“Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.”

“Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.”

“The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.”