Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

The greatest man in history was the poorest

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth

That man is idle who can do something better.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.