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

-- Emerson

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

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I wish my house to be a college, open as the air to all whom I spiritually belong, and who belong to me."

-- Emerson

"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."

-- Emerson

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine."

-- Emerson

"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom in books."

-- Emerson

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life than no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

-- Emerson

"If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration."

-- Emerson

"Put yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom that flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment."

-- Emerson

"The Secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear."

-- Emerson

"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds."

-- Emerson

"Do not waste yourself in rejection, do not bark against the bad but chant the beauty of the good."

-- Emerson

"All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt."

-- Emerson

"The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry."

-- Emerson

"Insist on yourself; never imitate."

-- Emerson

"The things that are really for thee gravitate to thee."

-- Emerson

"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self."

-- Emerson

"Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions."

-- Emerson

"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards."

-- Emerson

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

-- Emerson