Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We see only what we are ready to comprehend."

"The creation of science is the highest human calling."

"No great man has ever completed any great work who did not possess patience."

"The world belongs to the energetic."

"Every burned book enlightens the world."

"Time and tide wait for no man."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"The only true education comes from within."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and a word well spoken is endless."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"The purpose of civilization is to replace violence with law."

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."

"Self-trust is the first secret of success."

"Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view."

"A man is only as good as his word."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"In nature nothing can be given, all things are sold."

"There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe."

"The creation of life is in the hands of the creator."

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."

"To live is to grow, to grow is to change."

"The power to act is the most important power a man can possess."

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."

"Art teaches nothing except the significance of life."

"The only gift is a portion of thyself."

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance."

"The creation of the world is the creation of the self."