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For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Freedom
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
Conventionality
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Heroes and Heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Gratitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
Scholars and Scholarship
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
Fate
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
self-esteem
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Honesty
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Worry
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Critics and Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
Victory
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Fortune
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Success
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our expenses are all for conformity.
Individuality
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
Change
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
Slavery
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.
Sin
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Influence
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun