Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Character Quotes, Giving Quotes

The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

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When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

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The dearest events are summer-rain.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

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If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

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To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.

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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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Popularity is for dolls.

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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

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I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

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The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

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A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

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