Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.

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A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

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Culture opens the sense of beauty.

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The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

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Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

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Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

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Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow And through the wind-piled snowdrift The warm rosebuds below.

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A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

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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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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

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We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

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