``Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.'' -- Oliver Cromwell You could be, at this very moment, watching television. That means ...

In reading some of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays I ran across a section that I think is quite appropriate to our times. He was talking about how each by our good works create the best shields and ...

“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day,” declared Ralph Waldo Emerson, anticipating James Joyce’s “Ulysses” by more than half a century. But what we’re thinking of oscillates and changes ...

…we can see crises of liberalism as… a slackening of …imaginative power. [W]hat Emerson regarded as a defect was perhaps his essential virtue: his unwillingness to deny a truth because it was ...