Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson