"What is well done, I feel as..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.”

“Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.”

“All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.”

“Possessions are usually diminished by possession.”

“That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.[Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]”

“We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.”

“Let it be said to our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we didn't turn our back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.”

“The true source of rights is duty.”

“Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.”