Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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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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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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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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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
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Children are all foreigners.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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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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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible