Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which the days never know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Ralph Waldo Emerson