Ralph Waldo Emerson

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

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

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.