"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on funerals
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"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on heaven
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"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on heroes and heroism
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"There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on humor
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"At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on hypocrisy
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"It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ideas
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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

Ford, Henry on learning
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