"Happy is the house that shelters a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.”

“Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?”

“The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.”

“In middle school, my friends decided I was weird, and they didn’t like my hair. They ditched me and talked behind my back, which is cool — I’m over it. [laughs] One time I called them and said, “Hey, do you want to go to the Berkshire Mall?” They all gave me excuses and said no. So I go to the mall with my mom, and don’t you know, we run into all of them. Together. Shopping. My mom could see I was about to cry, so she said, “You know what? We’re going to the King of Prussia mall,” which was the mecca.”

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

“How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.”

“I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.”

“The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it”

“True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.”