Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

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

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Every wall is a door.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

You are braver than you believe. Stronger than you seem. And smarter than you think.

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress the most casual guest, a system of immediate introduction which she had found to obtain in a number of grimy intellectual households in Greenwich Village.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

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

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

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

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.