Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

The world is all outside, it has no inside.

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

All the devils respect virtue.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.