Ralph Waldo Emerson

The people are to be taken in small doses.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.

The dice of God are always loaded.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Blame is safer than praise.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time

We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Love is only one of many passions.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Such as take lodgings in a head that’s to be let unfurnished.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.