Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their moneys worth, except for these.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

The less government we have the better.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, ‘Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.