Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hitch your wagon to a star.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

When one has tasted it Watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it… Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Cultivate kindness today and always.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Wherever there is power there is age.