"Health and appetite impart the sweetness to..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.”

“Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.”

“We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.”

“I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was sound as a dollar.”

“Violent anger makes me physically ill.”

“Medicines are only fit for old people.”

“I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.”

“Overpay good baby-sitters.”

“It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.”