Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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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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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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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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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
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Thou animated torrid-zone.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.