Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Law Quotes, Games Quotes

The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

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We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

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Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

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The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

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Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

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The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

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Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise.

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Labor is God's education.

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

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Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

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The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

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