Explore Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Every wall is a door.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.