Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

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We boil at different degrees.

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Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

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Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

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The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.

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Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

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It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.

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The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

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