Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature hates calculators.”

“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.”

“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”

“The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?”

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”

“Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.”

“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”

“The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.”

“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”

“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”

“Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.”

“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.”

“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.”

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”

“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”