Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Kings Quotes, Gentleman Quotes

What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

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You cannot see the mountain near.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

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The eye is the best of artists.

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In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

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Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

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Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

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Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

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Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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