Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship Quotes
In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship Quotes
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson