Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

The surest poison is time.

I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

When the romance is gone, if it’s always you left searching for it, maybe it’s time to stop looking, and start searching for someone new, and start a new romantic journey.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Youth is wasted on the young.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Better is the enemy of good.

A man’s library is a sort of harem.

Every great movement must experience three stages ridicule, discussion, adoption.