Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their moneys worth, except for these.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free.