Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.