No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson