The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.Henry David Thoreau