Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am an invited guest in this creation."

"Every burnt bridge should teach you something."

"Your time is limited, do not waste it living someone else's life."

"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you would not fail."

"The mind, once stretched, never returns to its original dimension."

"We are not born all at once but by bits."

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

"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other."

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."

"The beautiful rests on the foundation of the necessary."

"Envy is ignorance, and imitation is suicide."

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

"The greatest man is the one who chooses right with invincible resolution."

"All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference."

"The true measure of a man is his character."

"We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand moments that signify."

"The mind is the effect, not the cause; we are not going insane."

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."

"The creation of the thousand forests is in one seed."

"Science is the systematic effort to discover the laws of nature."

"Blessed is the soul who has found her work."

"So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"Manners require time, as nothing is so vulgar as haste."

"The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion."

"All good conversation consists of giving."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one seed."

"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our ignorance."

"To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty."