Quote of the Day (Emerson)

“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
(As he began his final, fateful campaign in 1968, Robert Kennedy had this passage marked in his copy of the essays of Emerson, according to Thurston Clarke’s article in the June 2008 issue of Vanity Fair. In our more cynical time, who believes in this old-fashioned sentiment anymore? Maybe that’s the trouble.)