Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imitation cannot go above its model.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The surest poison is time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay
- Ralph Waldo Emerson