Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes On Life, Friendship, Success

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.