Ralph Waldo Emerson

• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
  
• A man is what he thinks about all day long.
• All mankind love a lover.
• Always do what you are afraid to do.
• Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
• Every artist was first an amateur.
• Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
• Every wall is a door.
• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
• Genius always finds itself a century too early.
• Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
  
• Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
• If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
• If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
  
• Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
• Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
• Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
• Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.