I Hate The Giving Of

A Man Known To Us Only As A Celebrity In Politics Or In Trade, Gains Largely In Our Esteem If We Discover That He Has Some Intellectual Taste Or Skill.

To Laugh Often And Much ... This Is To Have Succeeded. Probably Not From Emerson: Here's The Full Quotation And The Story.

Life Only Avails, Not The Having Lived.

The Poor Are Only They Who Feel Poor.

Let The River Roll Which Way It Will, Cities Will Rise On Its Banks.