Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson