Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
Commonsense is the wick of the candle.
Adult males are what their moms designed them.
And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.