"Keep the town for occasions, but the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”

“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”

“Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.”

“I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.”

“At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.”

“Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.”

“Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.”

“She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.”

“I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.”