Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Every wall is a door.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Nature has always had more force than education.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.