Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBeside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOther men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson