Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

New arts destroy the old.

The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.

You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he’d said ‘What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?’ He wouldn’t even have started.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood

All diseases run into one, old age.

A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.