Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1820
AUTHOR:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)
QUOTATION:
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
ATTRIBUTION:
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, “The American Scholar,” oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 31, 1837.—Nature, Addresses and Lectures (vol. 3 of The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson), p. 105 (1906).
