Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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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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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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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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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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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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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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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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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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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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Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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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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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.