• We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.233, University of Georgia Press