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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next to the...
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of...
Only poetry inspires...
Only poetry inspires poetry.
Source: Society and Solitude, Books, 1870.
-- Ralph...
Self-sacrifice is the...
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
Nature is no...
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
Source: In...
Money, which represents...
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its...
No man ever...
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Source: In Instant...
Our knowledge is...
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Source:...
Society everywhere is...
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. . . . The virtue in most request...
Nature. . ....
Nature. . . She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
Source: In...
My chief want...
My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
Source: In...
No man should...
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes...
Out of Plato...
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of...
Society is always...
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Source: In...
Necessity does everything...
Necessity does everything well.
Source: In
Nature has made...
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Nothing external to...
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Source: In
Outside, among your...
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do, but...
Sow a thought...
Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a...
No change of...
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Source: In
Nature magically suits...
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.