Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.