"So much of our time is spent..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.”

“Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.”

“The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.”

“Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.”

“People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.”

“Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.”

“It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.”

“Sticking to it is the genius.”

“It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.”