Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

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

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.