"We must be our own before we..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.”

“When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.”

“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.”

“I don't have to explain anything to anybody.”

“The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.”

“For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.”

“If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.”

“I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.”

“Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.”