Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson