...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

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

All mankind love a lover.

All mankind love a lover.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these...

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these...

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility

Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions

Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions

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

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

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange...

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange...

We all boil at different degrees

We all boil at different degrees

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

We are wiser than we know.

We are wiser than we know.

America is another name for opportunity

America is another name for opportunity

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and...

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and...

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Our best thoughts come from others.