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• Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him.
  But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor....
• The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso
• A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
• The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
  -- Ralph W. Emerso...
• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.
  The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it....
• Now that is the wisdom of man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso