You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. – Ralph Waldo Emerson