Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson