Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

"The individual is the world."

"All things are moral, and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature."

"That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character."

"What we resist persists."

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

"The greatest revelation of my life is that a person can change his circumstances by changing his thoughts."

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"I like the silent church before the service begins."

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."

"The only way to maintain your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful."

"Manners maketh man."

"All biography is autobiography."

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

"The creation of a new framework is more important than an improvement to the old."

"Is not prayer also a study of truth?"

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

"The true and strong word of protest is always homely."

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

"Discontent is the want of self-reliance."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answer, he posses one which generates more and more questions."

"God has delegated himself to a thousand times to all that is wise and noble."

"The happiest person is the one who thinks the most interesting thoughts."

"There is a tendency in things to right themselves and wise men work with the tendency, not against it."

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

"To the great, nothing is small."