Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men in all ways are better than they seem.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go put your creed into your deed...
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Tis curious that we only believe as deep as we live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With the Past, as past, I have nothing to do; nor with the Future, as future. I live now...
- Ralph Waldo Emerson