Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Marriage Quotes, Children Quotes

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

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Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

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We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

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He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

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Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

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It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

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If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

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We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

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A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

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