Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The earth laughs in flowers.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

All mankind love a lover.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

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.

Men are what their mothers made them.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Money often costs too much.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.