"My evening visitors, if they cannot see..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.”

“It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.”

“A man is related to all nature.”

“It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.”

“But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.”

“Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.”

“Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.”

“But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”