Ralph Waldo Emerson

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Your fingers caress my heart strings, shaping a silent sonnet in notes of love. Transcending space and time, bathing the ether in perfect harmony.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Logic is like the sword

Whatever you have spend less.

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.