Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

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

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

The dice of God are always loaded.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Once you truly understand that it is okay to lose or fail, you are free, you have nothing to fear, and only then, can nothing in this world hold you back.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.