Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Choose people who lift you up.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. Some Folks think they may Scold, Rail, Hate, Rob and Kill too; so it be but for God’s sake. But nothing in us unlike him, can please him.

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption –pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.