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Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and essayist who promoted individual initiative, culminating in his iconic work, "The American Scholar." All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, who undoubtedly would get thrown off of campus and have Antifa burn down buildings if he were invited to speak on a typical campus today. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidential spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to...

There’s no family I know,’’ Cummings continued encouragingly, “that when they have problems they say, ‘To hell with it.’ ’’ The most memorable part of his “life-altering” trip to attend Nelson Mandela’s funeral in South Africa, he told his friends in the hotel ballroom, was when Mandela’s grandson said that the great man had counseled him, “Don’t be pushed around by your fears and problems; be led by your hopes and dreams.” Actually, Emerson said that.

I looked it up. Ralph Waldo Emerson did not write this exact sentence, “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” He did express a similar thought though. Two examples came to mind this weekend. My wife – what a marvelous phrase, my wife -- is using our exceptionally joyful and funny wedding and reception as inspiration for her column this week. So, I’ll talk just about the national media aspects of the event. The what? The national media? We live in a small town in the Blue Ridge, whose resident population has grown...