"The restraining grace of common sense is..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend.”

“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”

“Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.”

“Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.”

“We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.”

“No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.”

“The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.”

“Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.”