Waldo Emerson Quotes
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.