ralph waldo emerson

5 min read 2022-12-09 10:37:22

Consistency Is the Last Refuge of the Unimaginative

Oscar Wilde? James McNeill Whistler? Ralph Waldo Emerson? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Being consistent is important in life. Yet,

5 min read 2022-09-05 08:17:25

Alexandre Dumas? Ralph Waldo Emerson? William J. Snelling? Jacques-François Ancelot? Jules Janin? William Pulling? Alphonse de Lamartine?

3 min read 2022-07-20 00:05:19

A screenshot of James Marcus during our recent zoom conversation at legendary City Lights Books James Marcus, former editor of Harper’s Magazine

9 min read 2022-06-19 20:38:48

Personal Libraries Library (Winter 2009-10 to Spring/Summer 2021) Imagine belonging to a library composed of selected personal libraries and housed

5 min read 2022-06-08 20:07:12

Walt Whitman’s “Faces” (2012) Walt Whitman’s “Faces”: A Typographic Reading (2012)Barbara HenryCase bound in boards in quarter-leather.

2 min read 2022-06-05 07:33:41

Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson is not often read these days. His image has suffered with the passage of time, and he is too often ignored as

7 min read 2022-04-20 23:17:56

Elbert Hubbard? Kin Hubbard? Ralph Waldo Emerson? Robert Burns Wilson? Henry Austin? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: Success is often achieved

7 min read 2022-04-20 23:17:56

Elbert Hubbard? Kin Hubbard? Ralph Waldo Emerson? Robert Burns Wilson? Henry Austin? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: Success is often achieved

7 min read 2022-04-20 23:17:56

Elbert Hubbard? Kin Hubbard? Ralph Waldo Emerson? Robert Burns Wilson? Henry Austin? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: Success is often achieved

3 min read 2022-02-16 20:56:40

Whether you’re writing, editing, or just dealing with the wear and tear of a busy day, you know that a little bit of kindness will bring a smile

2 min read 2022-01-15 04:41:11

In the morning sow your seed, do not let your hands be idle in the evening. Ecclesiastes 11:6 But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head

12 min read 2022-01-06 18:00:00

On the title page of my paperback copy of Walden, an echo of a former self greets me. My name, written in loopy adolescent script, and the date:

1 min read 2021-10-04 04:04:00

I often read a page or two of Emerson before greeting the sun. For me, he is the wisest of American philosophers and the most practical, because his

1 min read 2021-07-27 13:45:06

What do all successful people have in common, regardless of occupation or location? Intentionality. In my book, The Intention Imperative, I

4 min read 2021-02-02 20:27:30

As legend has it, Alexander the Great was leading his forces across a scorching terrain. For eleven days, they marched on. The soldiers were