Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Live, let live, and help live

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

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

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better

Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.

Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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

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