Waldo Emerson Quotes

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone.