Ralph Waldo Emerson
459 quotations
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
Self-trust is the first secret to success.
He is great who confers the most benefits.
No man can help another without helping himself.
Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
Society is a hospital of incurables.
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
We walk alone in the world.
We never touch but at points.
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
Sorrow makes us children again.