“We are always getting to live, as Ralph Waldo Emerson used to say, but never living. Or as poor Frances learned in the children's story, it is always bread and jam tomorrow, never brad and jam today.”
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson.”
“Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.”
“The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“Every Hero Becomes a Bore at last." Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]”