Ralph Waldo Emerson
459 quotations
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered
The virtue in most request is conformity.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Our strength grows out of our weakness.
The first wealth is health.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
Work is victory.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.