Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

“In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.”

“Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.”

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”

“Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn.”

“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.”

“The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.”

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”

“Love, and you shall be loved.”

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

“I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.”

“I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.”

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”

“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong”

“There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”

“O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.”

“There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.”