Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are.

A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.