"There are other measures of self-respect for..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.”

“In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”

“Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.”

“Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.”

“-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.”

“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”

“He doth nothing but talk of his horses.”

“You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.”

“No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”