Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
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Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.