Emerson …

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) is one of the most quoted persons in America.
• "The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one..."
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
  - Ibid.

  "Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh."
  - Ibid.

  "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
  - Ibid.

  "He who has more obedience than I masters me."
  - Ibid.

  "The ancestor of every action is a thought."
  - Ibid.

  "There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task."
  - Ibid.

  "To different minds, the same world is a hell and a heaven."
  - Ibid.

  "All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature. We have theories of races and functions, but scarcely yet a remote approach to the idea of creation."
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, (3)

  "Through all its kingdoms, to the suburbs and outskirts of things, it [nature] is faithful to the cause whence it had its origin. It always speaks of Spirit."
  - Ibid., (34)

  "That which intellectually considered we call Reason, considered in relation to nature, we call Spirit. Spirit is the Creator. Spirit hath life in itself."
  - Ibid., (15)

  "A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit."
  - Ibid., (19)

  "Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise."
  - Ibid., (39)