Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind loves a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say so, because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance. It is that which you know not in yourself, and can never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson