Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1819
AUTHOR:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)
QUOTATION:
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
ATTRIBUTION:
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, “Public and Private Education,” lecture before the Parker Fraternity, Boston, Massachusetts, November 27, 1864.—Emerson, Uncollected Lectures, ed. Clarence Gohdes, p. 14 (1932).
