Quotes
Quotes - Emerson
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Men are better than their theology.
All mankind love a lover.
A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
And with Cæsar to take in his hand the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, and say, "All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile."
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
