Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

To be great, you must be misunderstood

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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

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All diseases run into one, old age.

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

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Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

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Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

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Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

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Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

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The best part of health is fine disposition

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

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In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

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Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

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