Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.