Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The first wealth is health.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Well, when it comes to social media – there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down. You can’t be reading all that stuff. I mean, that’s like letting somebody just walk up and slap you, you know? You would never do that. You would never just sit there and go, slap me in the face and I’m good with it. No. So why would you open yourself up to that?

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.