Quotes
Quotes - Emerson
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
If a man write a better book, or make a better mouse-trap ... the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
I hate quotations.
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
I hate quotations.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The louder he talks of honour, the faster we count our spoons.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Money often costs too much.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
