Ralph Waldo Emerson

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Well, when it comes to social media – there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down. You can’t be reading all that stuff. I mean, that’s like letting somebody just walk up and slap you, you know? You would never do that. You would never just sit there and go, slap me in the face and I’m good with it. No. So why would you open yourself up to that?

Nothing is black or white.