Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Pass in, pass in," the angels say,"In to the upper doors,Nor count compartments of the floors,But mount to paradiseBy the stairway of surprise."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into each individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nor knowest thou what argumentThy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.All are needed by each one;Nothing is fair or good alone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson