"But the man and woman of seventy..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

“My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.”

“I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”

“Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?”

“The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.”

“No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.”

“A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”

“She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.”

“All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.”