There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
Interpretation
Memorable experiences stem from moments of creative inspiration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the most significant and unforgettable moments in our lives are often those that resonate deeply with our imagination. These experiences, full of creativity and inspiration, leave a lasting impact and evoke strong emotions, making them stand out among the many ordinary days we encounter.
In practice
In a speech about creativity, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson pointed out, there are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.'
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.
The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
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