Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

The years teach much what the days never knew.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

The eye is easily frightened.

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Language is the archives of history.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

Whether he knew it or not, the life he lived was his penance. Punishing himself, for what he believes are his sins. Consciously or subconsciously, he creates the world he lives in. Never believing that he is deserving happiness, deserving joy. His self-destructive nature, in his eyes, and his eyes only, is justified. Everyone is deserving absolution, but he needs to understand, that he is the only one able to forgive himself.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.