Status Updates From The Conduct of Life

"[L]et him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries."

"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."

"Life is a boundless privilege,and when you pay your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there."

I open this book anywhere and feel good after.

"The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder."

Should be in a love story. Emerson surprises yet again.

"[C]onvert the Furies into Muses, and the hells into benefit."

Emerson didn't mellow with age. He got more fired.
Dylan Thomas would have approved. Great way to finish 2022.