Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The God of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
From washington, proverbially “the city of distances,” through all its cities, states — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conservatism is more candid to behold another’s worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
