Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

When you’re first figuring yourself out, you care so much about what people think of you.

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

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;we shall never surrender.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.