Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is always willing to be little.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity–to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with? When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

Genius Borrows nobly.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

My emancipation don’t fit your equation.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon