You Life is a progress, and not a station.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always safety in valor.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the thing and you will have the power.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t trust children with edge tools. Don’t trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.’

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson