We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.
ATTRIBUTION:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Speech, December 9, 1841, at the Masonic Temple, Boston, Massachusetts. “The Conservative,” Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (1849).
