"There are many eyes that can detect..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.”

“Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.”

“In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.”

“Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.”

“Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.”

“The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.”

“There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.”

“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”

“For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.”