Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

The first wealth is health.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Men are what their mothers made them.

What you are comes to you.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

The years teach much which the days never know.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.