Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
The first wealth is health.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Men are what their mothers made them.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
Money often costs too much.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
