Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

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The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

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Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

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Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

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He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

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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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The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

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All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

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When it's dark enough men see stars.

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Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

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In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

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I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

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Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

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Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

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