Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

We are prisoners of ideas.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people…

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.