Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

There are always two parties;_x000D_ the establishment and the movement.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

Thought is the seed of action.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.

Real action is in silent moments.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

Every natural action is graceful.