So far as a person thinks; they are free.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs...

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation’s time.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul,...

Do the thing and you will have the power.

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth...

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well – he has changed...

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse’s neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal...

The world we live in is but thickened light.

There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue.

It is a luxury to be understood.

That man is idle who can do something better

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men,...

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen...

Only so much do I know, as I have lived

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; – for causes which are unpenetrated

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Be not the slave of your own past … plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall...

Imitation cannot go above its model.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, ‘Thou must,’ The youth whispers, ‘I can.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it…” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.