Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Be an opener of doors"

"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."

"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"Every artist was first an amateur."

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."

"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"

"We are wiser than we know."

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

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

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."

"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."

"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."

"Love, and you shall be loved."

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."