Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Education Quotes, Believe Quotes

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

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A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

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The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

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Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

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All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

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Society has no bribe for me.

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The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

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Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

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Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

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It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

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