Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Necessity does everything well.

Children are all foreigners.

Our faith comes in moments… yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

When it comes to the story of my heart, I am the villain, locking it away; denying its right be free. The chains are tight, restricting its growth; long enough to see through the window of opportunity, but the only escape it has, is via the pen. Why do I deny myself the opportunities? I know it comes from a place of protection, but also of fear. I think my heart has grown a resentment because of this betrayal, and has decided, enough is enough.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely!

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Work is always an antidote to depression.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.