Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Our best thoughts come from others.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

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

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Every artist was first an amateur.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.