Ralph Waldo Emerson

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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

As soon as there is life there is danger.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.