Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

The less government we have the better.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can’t dishearten it.

I am the flame, electric blue, lightening, razor-like, renewing my spirit. Heart beating in time to the earth’s rhythm and expanse of black ink sky, overreaching eternal. My fingertips spark with seeds of creation, fireworks coloring canvas, beckoned by this light that lifts me.

Reading Proust isn’t just reading a book, it’s an experience and you can’t reject an experience.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

Courage is exhilarating.

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says.

In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am – unbound.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

None of us should be defined by the worst thing we’ve ever done.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.