Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Nature… She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

It’s powerful to have strong men but what does that strength mean?

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius’s violins without Antonio.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

The surest poison is time.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.

Not even the Devil can call a woman “Slut” if he is not able to make her fall in love.