Quotes
Quotes - Emerson
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
Never read any book that is not a year old.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.
Shallow men believe in luck.
Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
We boil at different degrees.
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.
"If I love you, what is that to you?" We say so because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance. It is that which you know not in yourself and can never know.
