“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate,…” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Come out of your warm, angular house, resounding with few voices, into the chill, grand, instantaneous night, with such a Presence as a full moon in the clouds.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
