It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.