Ralph Waldo Emerson

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

Do your thing, and I shall know you.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

Do your work, but do your thing.

We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.