Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I hung my verse in the wind Time and tide their faults will find.
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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, - mettle and bottom.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.