Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

“Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.”

“Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.”

“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.”

“A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.”

“The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.”

“I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”

“He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.”

“The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.”

“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.”

“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”

“We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.”

“Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

“Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.”

“Lose yourself in nature and find peace”

“Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.”

“All mankind love a lover.”

“Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.”

“In good writing, words become one with things.”

“I am a willow of the wilderness,Loving the wind that bent me.”

“What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.”

“The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.”

“We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.”

“Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.”

“The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.”

“We are all wise for other people, none for himself.”