Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All mankind love a lover."

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself."

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."

"Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside."

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

"To fill the hour──that is happiness."

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."

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

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."

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

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."

"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."

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

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

"People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad."

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."

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