Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

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

Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.