Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is an immense impression, the copy of an aboriginal, or elder world, which God made once for all.

We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we are conservatives.

Nature is a mute and merciless mother.

Every man has a right to be tried by a jury of his peers, but not by a jury of his superiors or his inferiors.

The end of the world is not the end of the world.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

The health of the eye demands a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

The beautiful is higher than the good, because it includes the good.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer.

The world is not a inn but a hospital.

Men are what their mothers made them.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which bring with them a keen sense of a new birth, as if you had never lived before.

The secret of success is to be true to your purpose.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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

The human mind is a device for closing down on reality.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

All mankind love a lover.

Nature is no sentimentalist—does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman, but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.