Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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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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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
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Children are all foreigners.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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Nature hates calculators.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.