Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Family Quotes

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

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Man's life is a progress, not a station.

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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

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It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

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There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

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A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

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Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands; To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all; I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp Forgot my morning wishes, hastily Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent. I too late Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

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Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

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Men are what their mothers made them.

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