"A man should have a farm or..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.”

“Nothing can be preserved that is not good.”

“I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.”

“Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.”

“The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.”

“Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.”

“The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.”

“A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.”

“The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.”