"Every man is a quotation from all..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.”

“The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.”

“Wise men are not wise at all times.”

“We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.”

“Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.”

“Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?”

“Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.”

“I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.”

“God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.”