Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.