Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

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A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

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Life is a series of surprises.

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Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

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But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

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