Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.