Ralph Waldo Emerson

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

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.

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

A good conscience is a continual feast.

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.