Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Stars Quotes, Writing Quotes

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

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Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

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Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.

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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

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Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

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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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The finest wits have their sediment.

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The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

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Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

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

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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.

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The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

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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.

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First be a good animal.

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If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

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The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

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