There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

By : Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

By : Ralph Waldo Emerson

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

By : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

By : Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

By : Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

By : Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

By : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

By : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

By : Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

By : Ralph Waldo Emerson

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

By : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

By : Ralph Waldo Emerson