Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever there is power there is age.

Live, let live, and help live

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.