The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson