Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Travel Quotes, Journey Quotes

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

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In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

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The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

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Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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We find in life exactly what we put into it

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Every advantage has its tax.

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Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

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The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

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To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

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

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He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

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Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

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I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

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A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

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