Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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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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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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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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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared 'that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow'.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.