Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

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The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

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The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

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Everything good is on the highway.

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It is defeat which educates us.

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Our distrust is very expensive.

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But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

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Love, and you shall be loved.

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

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Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

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Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

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The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

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To be gret is to be misunderstood.

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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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