Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson