Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”

“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”

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

“The years teach much which the days never know.”

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.”

“Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.”

“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.”

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

“The highest revelation is that God is in every man.”

“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”

“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”

“Genius always finds itself a century too early.”