Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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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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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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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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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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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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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!