Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes And Sayings

What Is A Farm But A Mute Gospel?

Wherever The Invitation Of Men Or Your Own Occasions Lead You, Speak The Very Truth, As Your Life And Conscience Teach It, And Cheer The Waiting, Fainting Hearts Of Men With New Hope And New Revelation.

As We Grow Old, The Beauty Steals Inward.

Every Burned Book Enlightens The World.

Speak The Truth, And All Things Alive Or Brute Are Vouchers, And The Very Roots Of The Grass Underground There, Do Seem To Stir And Move To Bear You Witness.

I Hate The Giving Of The Hand Unless The Whole Man Accompanies It.

Our Greatest Glory Is Not In Never Failing, But In Rising Up Every Time We Fail.

The Sum Of Wisdom Is That Time Is Never Lost That Is Devoted To Work.

People With Great Gifts Are Easy To Find, But Symmetrical And Balanced Ones Never.

The Desire Of Gold Is Not For Gold. It Is For The Means Of Freedom And Benefit.

No Great Man Ever Complains Of Want Of Opportunity.

There Is A Tendency For Things To Right Themselves.

If A Man Can... Make A Better Mousetrap, The World Will Make A Beaten Path To His Door.

Great Hearts Steadily Send Forth The Secret Forces That Incessantly Draw Great Events.

Children Are All Foreigners.

If You Would Lift Me Up You Must Be On Higher Ground.

For Every Benefit You Receive A Tax Is Levied.

Beauty Without Expression Is Boring.

The Method Of Nature: Who Could Ever Analyze It?

The Value Of A Principle Is The Number Of Things It Will Explain.

Words Are Also Actions, And Actions Are A Kind Of Words.

Men's Actions Are Too Strong For Them. Show Me A Man Who Has Acted, And Who Has Not Been The Victim And Slave Of His Action.

There Is No Chance And Anarchy In The Universe. All Is System And Gradation. Every God Is There Sitting In His Sphere.

It Is A Fact Often Observed, That Men Have Written Good Verses Under The Inspiration Of Passion, Who Cannot Write Well Under Other Circumstances.

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.

Every Experiment, By Multitudes Or By Individuals, That Has A Sensual And Selfish Aim, Will Fail.

Once You Make A Decision, The Universe Conspires To Make It Happen.

It Is My Desire, In The Office Of A Christian Minister, To Do Nothing Which I Cannot Do With My Whole Heart. Having Said This, I Have Said All.

Passion Rebuilds The World For The Youth. It Makes All Things Alive And Significant.

We Are By Nature Observers, And Thereby Learners. That Is Our Permanent State.

O Day Of Days When We Can Read! The Reader And The Book, Either Without The Other Is Naught.

We Do Not Yet Possess Ourselves, And We Know At The Same Time That We Are Much More.

Each Age, It Is Found, Must Write Its Own Books; Or Rather, Each Generation For The Next Succeeding.

Every Spirit Makes Its House, And We Can Give A Shrewd Guess From The House To The Inhabitant.

Give A Boy Address And Accomplishments And You Give Him The Mastery Of Palaces And Fortunes Where He Goes.

In Every Society Some Men Are Born To Rule, And Some To Advise.

Men Love To Wonder, And That Is The Seed Of Science.

The Secret Of Ugliness Consists Not In Irregularity, But In Being Uninteresting.

The Value Of A Dollar Is Social, As It Is Created By Society.

Character Is Always Known. Thefts Never Enrich; Alms Never Impoverish; Murder Will Speak Out Of Stone Walls.

Preaching Is The Expression Of The Moral Sentiment In Application To The Duties Of Life.

All I Have Seen Teaches Me To Trust The Creator For All I Have Not Seen.

With The Past, I Have Nothing To Do; Nor With The Future. I Live Now.

Man Is Priest, And Scholar, And Statesman, And Producer, And Soldier.

Do Not Go Where The Path May Lead, Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail.

Build A Better Mousetrap And The World Will Beat A Path To Your Door.

All Life Is An Experiment. The More Experiments You Make The Better.

I Think We Must Get Rid Of Slavery, Or We Must Get Rid Of Freedom.

Can Anything Be So Elegant As To Have Few Wants, And To Serve Them One's Self?

The Reward Of A Thing Well Done Is Having Done It.