Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth laughs in flowers.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

Money often costs too much.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.