Quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your ri...

Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman...

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the ...

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, a...

Envy is ignorance. ...

The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose na...

Character is higher than intellect. ...

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we mu...

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has n...

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. ...

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the ...

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only...

It is only when the mind and character slumber that th...

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is ...

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions...

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose...

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was g...

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know ...

Every actual state is corrupt.  Good men must not...

Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, u...

Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpe...

What would be the use of immortality to a person who c...

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day ...

We are always getting ready to live but never living.&...

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine...