Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, nature never pardons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson