Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

Your genuine action will explain itself, and_x000D_ _x000D_ will explain your other genuine actions._x000D_ _x000D_ Your conformity explains nothing.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

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

Imitation cannot go above its model.

One idea lights a thousand candles.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.