Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?

A man is a god in ruins.When men are innocent,life shall be longer and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams

The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

Keep your friendships in repair.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.