Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today is a king in disguise.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

Gold will be slave or master.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

What you can’t pay back you pay forward.