Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBut hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson