The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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1102 The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
1150 A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
1135 As soon as there is life there is danger.
1105 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
1140 It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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