Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

The eye is easily frightened.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I trust no one, not even myself.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God; and to do that, thou must be ruled by him who has given to kings his grace to command themselves and their subjects, and to the people the grace to obey God and their kings.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to carry it off.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

A man’s interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think – yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.