Ralph Waldo Emerson

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

If you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you can not eat.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.”- Shayne Mcclendon

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.