Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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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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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
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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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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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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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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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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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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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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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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.