Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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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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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.