Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

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

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn’t something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly – a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

No man was ever great by imitation.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.