Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every wall is a door.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.

Broken, like a mosaic, I am pieced together. I am still a piece of art, though I may not be fully appreciated by all, the ones that see the beauty, are the ones who have the understanding; gained through experience, that to break, doesn’t mean to give up.

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.