Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear

There is always safety in valor

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.