Waldo Emerson Quotes

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

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.

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.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

The key to every man is his thought.

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

The surest poison is time.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

Eyes...They speak all languages.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.

My life is not an apology, but a life.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

An empire is an immense egotism.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.