Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without electricity, the air would rot.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson