Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money often costs too much.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

A man is related to all nature.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists – talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities – a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.