| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 21113 |
| QUOTATION: | 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). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Emerson Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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