Waldo Emerson Quotes
The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.
Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.