Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Ahh, that mountain of self-discovery. Every time you have reached the summit, the clouds clear and you see there is still a ways to go. Don’t look up with thoughts of despair; thinking how much further do I have to go?! Take a moment and look back to see how far you have come. Don’t lose sight of your accomplishments, and focus on the continued commitment to self-discovery and development.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Never do wrong when people are looking.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

What you can’t pay back you pay forward.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

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

I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?

My life is a struggle.