The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here."Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
