We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

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

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.