"The foundation of culture, as of character,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.”

“Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.”

“There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.”

“We all have done something unethical.”

“Woe to the man who offends a small child!”

“The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.”

“Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.”

“Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.”

“Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.”