Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

“A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.”

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

“So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.”

“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”

“There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.”

“In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful”

“Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.”

“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”

“Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.”

“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”

“The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.”

“No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.”

“The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.”

“Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.”

“Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend.”

“To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.”

“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.”

“Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.”

“A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.”

“He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.”

“Every man is a new method.”

“One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.”

“Genius Borrows nobly.”

“What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?”