Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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.
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Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
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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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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm.
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Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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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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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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A mollusk is a cheap edition of man with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
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Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.