Waldo Emerson Quotes
To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.
Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.