Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is a hospital of incurables.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

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

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – Let there be truth between us two forevermore.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Best friends that pick wedgies together stay besties for life!

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.