And so of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness – an open and noble temper.
Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
Do not tell me… of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
The force of character is cumulative.
There are geniuses in trade, as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate, is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it. See him, and you will know as easily why he succeeds, […]
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Do what you know, and perception is converted into character, as islands and continents were built by invisible infusories, or, as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases, and the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
