Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You become what you think about all day long.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have first an instinct then an opinion then knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson