Ralph Waldo Emerson
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
