Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality is a sliding door.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.