Ralph Waldo Emerson

As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

The less government we have the better.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

The people are to be taken in small doses.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Choose people who lift you up.

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Where God does not govern, tyrants will rule.

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

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.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

It’s the ones that stayed after the Exodus, that I knew were real and could handle the truth; that would stay with me on my journey, for better or worse.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence – neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish – it is an imponderably valuable gift.