Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is the archives of history.

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

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found myself, myself as well.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I’m sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.

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