Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

"The earth laughs in flowers."

"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance."

"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."

"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society."

"There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere."

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."

"We acquire the strength we have overcome."

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."

"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."

"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."