Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality is a sliding door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man’s genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson