“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson · Society and Solitude, 1870
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson · "Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson", 1870
“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson · "Boston," poem, 1830s