Quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as there is life there is danger....

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

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a goo...

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

Be an opener of doors....

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except ...

Beauty without expression is boring....

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait....

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use ...

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to y...

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful ...

But genius is the power to labor better and more availably. ...

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

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serv...

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact....

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never i...

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be str...

Children are all foreigners....

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes....

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret....

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument ...

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase fr...

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is...

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain....

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitali...