There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.