Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about…

Nothing external to you has any power over you…

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely…

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well…

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers…

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing…

God enters by a private door into every individual…

In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with…

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom…

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art…

Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for…

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding…

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well…

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit…

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of…