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- A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
- A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes
longer.
- A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is
as insupportable as any other dullness.
- All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
- All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an
instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and
fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
- As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
- Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live,
as well as to think.
- Children are all foreigners.
- Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
- Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors,
for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
- Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail.
- Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an
experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the
beauty of the good.
- Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the
triumph of some enthusiasm.
- Every hero becomes a bore at last.
- Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
