"Everything runs to excess; every good quality..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”

“Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.”

“Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.”

“You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.”

“Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.”

“Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.”

“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”

“If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!”

“Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.”