Ralph Waldo Emerson

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Nature… She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Reality is a sliding door.

Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

There is no such thing as the Queen’s English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.