Ralph Waldo Emerson

(87 votes)   The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(86 votes)   Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(85 votes)   A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(85 votes)   A man's what he thinks about all day long

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(85 votes)   Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(85 votes)   Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(85 votes)   Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(85 votes)   Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(85 votes)   The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(85 votes)   We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(85 votes)   What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(85 votes)   Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(84 votes)   A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(84 votes)   Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(83 votes)   A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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