Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.