"Your old nonsense"

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born May 25, 1803.  He believed in Transcendentalism, the idea that everything in our world—even a drop of dew—is a microcosm of the universe.  God was not remote and unknowable.  Believers could find God and themselves by looking into their own souls, and connecting with nature.

He wrote:

 “Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”