Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it’s in everyone’s heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought – two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson