Ralph Waldo Emerson

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.

Today is a king in disguise.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

We have a problem. Congratulations. But it’s a tough problem. Then double congratulations.

At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

Live, let live, and help live

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.