Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

The years teach much the days never know.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.