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.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: American Dream Quotes

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will...

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will...

Love is one of those jokes you have to be there to get.

Love is one of those jokes you have to be there to get.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the...

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the...

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and...

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and...

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring...

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring...

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...

A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe

A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to...

The years teach much which the days never knew.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast...

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast...

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Power and speed be hands and feet.