Ralph Waldo Emerson

The people are to be taken in small doses.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Whatever you have spend less.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.