Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Life Quotes

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

All promise outruns performance.

All promise outruns performance.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly...

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly...

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke...

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke...

Language is fossil poetry

Language is fossil poetry

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do...

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do...

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it

The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife,...

The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife,...

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it...

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it...

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the...

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the...

The worst is death, and death will have his day.

The worst is death, and death will have his day.

Ll our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

Ll our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.