Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

Live, let live, and help live

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

I’m taking more time to listen to myself. It’s allowed me to be an aggressive bad ass, calling it as I see it

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Have good trust in yourself … not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.