Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

In this magical hour, as the black ink sky fades to forget-me-not grey and the Cyprus trees emerge from the shadows, I tune in to my heart. In clarity, I choose to step into freedom to bring lightness of being and to be love.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.