People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson