Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Stars Quotes, Eye Quotes

The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

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Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

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Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

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A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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The world is all outside, it has no inside.

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Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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Find the journey's end in every step.

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There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

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The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

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Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

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