"Do not say things. What you are..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”

“All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.”

“I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.”

“It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you.”

“If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?”

“Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.”

“If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

“A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.”