...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, --else it is none.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Goodness Quotes, Love Quotes, Truth Quotes

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Men are what their mothers made them.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too...

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too...

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are...

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are...

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

We are wiser than we know.

We are wiser than we know.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind...

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind...

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth...

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth...

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it...

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it...

A great man is always willing to be little.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.