Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Language is the archives of history.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

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.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

None of us should be defined by the worst thing we’ve ever done.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.

Kindness, love, strength and determination personified!! Madiba reminds me that everything is possible!

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The worst sin… is… to be indifferent.