| RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
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| �Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.�
�For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.� �Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.� �Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.� �Hitch your wagon to a star.� �I always seem to suffer from loss of faith on entering cities.� �I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.� �I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.� �If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.� �In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.� �In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.� �Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.� �It is a luxury to be understood.� �It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.� �It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.� �Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.� �Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.� �Money often costs too much.� |
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