Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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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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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.
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What potent blood hath modest May!
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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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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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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The silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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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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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.