Quotes
Quotes - Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
If a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider.
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
