It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOnly those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson