Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our distrust is very expensive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson