Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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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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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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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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Every wall is a door.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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What you are comes to you.
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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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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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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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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.