Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe in luck - is skepticism.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man, but in every particle. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All promise outruns performance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson