Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

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Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

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America is another name for opportunity.

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One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

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Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

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When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

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If the colleges were better, if they had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, - if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, - we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

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He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.

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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

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A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

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Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

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All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

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