Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.

They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.