Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson