Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Read more... )

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Read more... )

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Read more... )

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Read more... )

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Read more... )

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Read more... )

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Read more... )

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Read more... )

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Read more... )

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know I. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Read more... )