Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mankind love a lover.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Every wall is a door.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

For knowledge itself is power.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.