Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

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The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

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New arts destroy the old.

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The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

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The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

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Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

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Power educates the potentate.

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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

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A good deal of our politics is physiological.

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

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Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

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The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

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