Emerson Quotes

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some 20 or 30 farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 



It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Conversation is a game of circles. In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson