Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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There is always safety in valor.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
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Coal is a portable climate.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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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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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Reality is a sliding door.
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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.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.