Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Writing Quotes, Public Opinion Quotes

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

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Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

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Earth laughs in flowers.

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Be an opener of doors

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A system-grinder hates the truth.

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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

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I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

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Obedience alone gives the right to command.

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Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

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The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

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