The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHappy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
Ralph Waldo Emerson