Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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

A great man is always willing to be little.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.