Ralph Waldo Emerson

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

The city is recruited from the country.

Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.

That’s what I can’t stand. I know I’ll bounce back, and that’s what I can’t stand.

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! … Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Bravery is more important than perfection.- Kanye West

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.