The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

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

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.