Waldo Emerson Quotes

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

New York is a sucked orange.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

America is another name for opportunity.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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.

Some people are born very far from home.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Blame is safer than praise

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.