"The best effort of a fine person..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”

“A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.”

“He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.”

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”

“This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose”

“Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.”

“Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.”

“Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.”

“One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.”