Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
All successful men have agreed in one thing – they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Men consort in camp and town, But the poet dwells alone.
A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.
The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days, and more of them, than any other country.
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.
