No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOpen the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGetting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo EmersonManners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGood as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson