Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhy should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars; merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing; women will sew; laborers will lend a hand; the children will bring flowers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson