"Let the stoics say what they please,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Men in all ways are better than they seem.”

“Character is that which can do without success.”

“Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.”

“I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.”

“With a book he was regardless of time.”

“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.”

“You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?”

“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.[Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]”

“Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.”