Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Respect Quotes, Drinking Quotes

What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

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Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

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To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

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Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

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Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

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People say law but they mean wealth.

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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

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Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

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I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

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The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.

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The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

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We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

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Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

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