Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Islands Quotes

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

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Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

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Make youself necessary to someone.

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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

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Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

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Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

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A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.

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Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

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O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

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The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.

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Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again.

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