Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.
Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.
I have heard a clergyman of Maine say that in his parish are the Penobscot Indians and that when anyone of them in summer has been absent for some weeks hunting, he comes back among them a different person and altogether unlike the rest with an eagle’s eye, a wild look, and a commanding carriage […]
The maxim of the tyrant, “If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.”
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
If a man can cut such a head on his stone gate-post as shall draw and keep a crowd about it all day, by its beauty, good nature, and inscrutable meaning; – if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry, as to make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar; can […]
