Bad Times have a Scientific Value

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays