“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you someth...” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

“London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”

“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”

“Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.”