But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

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

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.