Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson