Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes On Life, Friendship, Success

The earth laughs in flowers.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Every wall is a door.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

America is another name for opportunity.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.