Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

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

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

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

Love is only one of many passions.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?

Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.