Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
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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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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Every wall is a door.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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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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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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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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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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We are wiser than we know.