Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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The less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
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It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
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Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays.
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
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Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.
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Art is a jealous mistress.
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies: if we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitos: if we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat.