Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.