Ralph Waldo Emerson
Запостила как-то под глазком некоторые высказывания Эмерсона, на память.
А теперь думаю, чего нам скрывать, читайте на здоровье:

There is a crack in everything God has made.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are.

Reality, however has a sliding floor.

Deal so plainly with man and woman, as to constrain the utmost sincerity, and destroy all hope of trifling with you. It is the highest compliment you can pay.

Sydney Smith found, as he grew older, that the people are better and foolisher than he had believed.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Make yourself necessary to someone.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

The worst day is good for something. All that is not love, is knowledge, and all that is not good today, is a store laid up for the wants of distant days.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.