Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes On Life, Friendship, Success

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

The first wealth is health.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.