Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Be an opener of doors.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Be an opener of doors.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

The future is purchased by the present.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.