Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

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.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Every wall is a door.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.