Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never read any book that is not a year old.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Your path will unfold as you walk it, step by step, each one a choice. Be mindful of where you put your feet; sometimes you will step on something sharp. This is a lesson; pay attention. Sometimes you will walk on soft green grass and you will stop and stay awhile. Enjoy those moments. Keep your eyes and heart on your destination and discover your way, one step at a time.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.