"We may like well to know what..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.”

“But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.”

“Morality is the object of government.”

“The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.”

“Life without learning is death.”

“The real safeguard of democracy is education.”

“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.”

“Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!”

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”