Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.Collection: Best
Every artist was first an amateur.Collection: Art
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.Collection: Chance
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.Collection: Men
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.Collection: Men
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.Collection: Time
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.Collection: Truth
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.Collection: Trust
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.Collection: Gardening
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.Collection: Wisdom
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.Collection: Morning
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.Collection: Courage
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.Collection: Beauty
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Collection: Beauty
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.Collection: Men
A man in debt is so far a slave.Collection: Money
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Collection: Nature
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.Collection: Fear
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.Collection: Beauty
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.Collection: Beauty
Beauty without expression is boring.Collection: Beauty
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.Collection: Faith
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.Collection: Inspirational
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.Collection: Strength
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.Collection: Great
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.Collection: Truth
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.Collection: Intelligence
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.Collection: Society
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.Collection: Good
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.Collection: Dreams
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.Collection: Great
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.Collection: History
Hitch your wagon to a star.Collection: Motivational
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.Collection: Friendship
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.Collection: Time
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.Collection: Science
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.Collection: Knowledge
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.Collection: Beauty
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.Collection: Women
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.Collection: Nature
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.Collection: Nature
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.Collection: Nature
Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.Collection: Nature
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.Collection: Freedom
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.Collection: Fear
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.Collection: Peace
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.Collection: Peace
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.Collection: Future
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.Collection: Hope
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.Collection: Wisdom