Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are wiser than we know.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey’d.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen’s miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.