Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Men are what their mothers made them.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently…

Once you truly understand that it is okay to lose or fail, you are free, you have nothing to fear, and only then, can nothing in this world hold you back.

Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

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

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Writers are the engineers of human souls.