Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Children are all foreigners.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.