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.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; – read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
Human character evermore publishes itself. You think, because you have spoken nothing when others spoke, and have given no opinion on the times, on the church, on slavery, on marriage, on socialism, on secret societies, on the college, on parties and persons, that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom. Far […]
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
The force of character is cumulative.
