God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please. You can never have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom […]

Dear to us are those who love us, but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life, they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – […]

The power men possess to annoy me, I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)