Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I’m not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson