Ralph Waldo Emerson

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Ralph Waldo Emerson