Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson