Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.”

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

“The first wealth is health.”

“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”

“God enters by a private door into every individual.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.”

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

“A good indignation brings out all one's powers.”

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”

“I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.”

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

“Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.”

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

“A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.”

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”