Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man can help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson