Ralph Waldo Emerson

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

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

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

He who praises every body, praises nobody.

Wherever there is power there is age.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

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

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.

There is a great deal of human nature in people.

Leave the rest to the gods.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.