405 Emerson Quotes
To be simple is to be great
Skill to do comes of doing
The first wealth is health
Calmness is always Godlike
Every artist was first an amateur
What you are comes to you
Give all to love, obey thy heart
To believe in luck, is skepticism
A man in debt is so far a slave
Earth laughs in flowers

Emerson quotes with pictures

Hitch your wagon to a star
Children are all foreigners
All men are poets at heart
The surest poison is time
Revolutions go not backward
A day is a miniature eternity
There is always safety in valor
Reality is a sliding door
Who loses a day loses life
Every wall is a door
Money often costs too much
We are wiser than we know
All mankind love a lover
Pride ruined the angels
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience
The only way to have a friend is to be one
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first
Our best thoughts come from others
Always do what you are afraid to do
Every man I meet is in some way my superior
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day
Make yourself necessary to somebody
Nothing external to you has any power over you
Obedience alone gives the right to command
Patience and fortitude conquer all things
Self-trust is the first secret of success
It is the good reader that makes the good book
We change, whether we like it or not
Difficulties exist to be surmounted
It is not length of life, but depth of life
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art
The ancestor of every action is a thought
The reward of a thing well done is having done it
The world belongs to the energetic
We aim above the mark to hit the mark
As soon as there is life, there is danger
Beauty without expression is boring
Fear always springs from ignorance
A man is what he thinks about all day long
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait
Character is that which can do without success
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret
Our faith comes in moments, our vice is habitual
We acquire the strength we have overcome
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself
All diseases run into one, old age
If a man own land, the land owns him
Man is a piece of the universe made alive
The years teach much which the days never know
We must be our own before we can be another's
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know
People only see what they are prepared to see
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis
The faith that stands on authority is not faith
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings
The highest revelation is that God is in every man
They sicken of the calm that know the storm
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man
Every sweet has its sour, every evil its good
Good men must not obey the laws too well
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock
Truth is beautiful, without doubt, but so are lies
All great men come out of the middle classes
Culture, with us, ends in headache
Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul
When there is no vision, people perish
Every burned book enlightens the world
Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live
Men are what their mothers made them
Self-command is the main elegance
Sorrow makes us all children again
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes
If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground
Science does not know its debt to imagination
To be great is to be misunderstood
A good indignation brings out all one's powers
I can find my biography in every fable that I read
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them
There is a tendency for things to right themselves
A great man is always willing to be little
Every hero becomes a bore at last
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise
No sensible person ever made an apology
The only reward of virtue is virtue
America is another name for opportunity
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know
Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied
Genius always finds itself a century too early
We do what we must, and call it by the best names
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints
In nature, nothing can be given, all things are sold
It is time to be old, To take in sail
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique
With the past, I have nothing to do, nor with the future. I live now
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries
The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me
A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women
Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war
As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen
Discontent is want of self-discipline, it is infirmity of will
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well
A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods
Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactor
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work
Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something
To fill the hour, and leave no crevice, that is happiness
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you
Some books leave us free and some books make us free
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
I pay the School Master, but it's the school boys that educate my son
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast
We are always getting ready to live, but never living
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die
What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flees from us
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved
Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances
It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind
Nothing is more simple than greatness, indeed, to be simple is to be great
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing
Our chief want someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be
People that seem so glorious are all show, underneath they are like everyone else
The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are punished by fear
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that
No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting
Sanity is very rare, every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never
Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly and they will show themselves great
It is my desire to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. A little praise goes great ways
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Each age, it is found, must write its own books, or rather, each generation for the next succeeding
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give
The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "always do what you are afraid to do"
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports
People wish to be settled, only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines
Right now is the time to be kind. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something, he has been put on his wits
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich
The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there's a great difference in the beholders
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame, every prison a more illustrious abode
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement, a selecting principle, gathering his like to him, wherever he goes
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple, which has no superfluous parts, which exactly answers its ends
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, you can never have both
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide
The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he until he has tried
A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right, and, again, making all crime mean and ugly
We are reformers in Spring and Summer, in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old, reformers in the morning, conservers at night
A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors, for the expression of all his history, and his wants
A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age
We fancy men are individuals, so are pumpkins, but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of can't and hypocrisy
If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved
Whatever you do, you need courage. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork, now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action
Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do, but inside, the terrible freedom
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity
The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts, and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted
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
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances
Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start
Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace
Every book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries, and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestions, the raw material of possible poems and histories
When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken, but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners
When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life"
Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship, it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him
What is success? To laugh often and much, To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, To appreciate beauty, To find the best in others, To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition, To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, That is to have succeeded
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more, that of the sick, who want something different, and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here"
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after our own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
Whoever is open, loyal, true, of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man, such a man is a true gentleman
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge, yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them, a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness, a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion

Emerson sayings and pictures

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs
The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crises, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!
We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times, and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads