Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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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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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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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 value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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Nature hates calculators.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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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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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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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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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Children are all foreigners.