We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

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

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.