Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes On Life, Friendship, Success

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.