Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever limits us we call fate.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Our best thoughts come from others.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Wherever you are, be there totally.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.