Quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the i...

I like the silent church before the service begins, better t...

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make...

If in the least particular one could derange the order of na...

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand year...

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man woul...

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge....

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground....

In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity...

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the ...

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advi...

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

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the eveni...

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, an...

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good vers...

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself...

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to d...

It is not length of life, but depth of life....

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can affor...

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that ...

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or ...

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young perso...

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dream...

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know....

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I...