Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Writing Quotes

Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.

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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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You can take better care of your secret than another can.

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

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I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

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Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

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Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

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Some will always be above others.

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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

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