"When the vain speaker has sat down,..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.”

“Every man is grave alone.”

“Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.”

“The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.”

“One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.”

“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”

“It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.”

“Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.”

“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”