Be Good to Your Work, Your Word, and Your Friend

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The years teach much the days never know.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every wall is a door.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson