Ralph Waldo Emerson

"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."

"Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron."

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

"Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."

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

"A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man."

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

"Culture with us ends in headache."

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

"If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, 'The Gods are to each other not unknown.'Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise."

"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."

"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."