Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

If The Finest Genius Studies At One Of Our Colleges, And Is Not Installed In An Office Within One Year Afterwards In The Cities Or Suburbs Of Boston Or New York, It Seems To His Friends And To Himself That He Is Right In Being Disheartened, And In Complaining The Rest Of His Life. A Sturdy Lad From New Hampshire Or Vermont, Who In Turn Tries All The Professions, Who Teams It, Farms It, Peddles, Keeps A School, Preaches, Edits A Newspaper, Goes To Congress, Buys A Township, And So Forth, In Successive Years, And Always, Like A Cat, Falls On His Feet, Is Worth A Hundred Of These City Dolls. He Walks Abreast With His Days, And Feels No Shame In Not 'studying A Profession,' For He Does Not Postpone His Life, But Lives Already.

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