"Great men are sincere...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man often pays dear for a small frugality.”

“Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.”

“But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.”

“Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.”

“There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.”

“The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.”

“Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.”

“I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.”

“However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.”