Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMoney is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGreatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
Ralph Waldo EmersonReally, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.
Ralph Waldo Emerson