Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

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Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

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A man is related to all nature.

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The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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I unsettle all things.

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It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

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Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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