Quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity....

Every burned book enlightens the world. ...

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of ...

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all qu...

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring....

Science does not know its debt to imagination. ...

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.&#...

Shallow men believe in luck.  Strong men believe ...

The years teach much which the days never knew. ...

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. ...

Life be not so short but that there is always time for...

Our distrust is very expensive. ...

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

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if...

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and...

The only gift is a portion of thyself. ...

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity....

We must be our own before we can be another's. ...

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Co...

Money often costs too much. ...

If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand yea...

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slau...

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

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.&...

Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and l...