Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The secret of ugliness

consists not in irregularity,

but in being uninteresting.

A man builds a fine house;

and now he has a master,

and a task for life: he is to furnish,

watch, show it,

and keep it in repair,

the rest of his days.

Great hearts steadily send forth

the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

There is more difference in the quality

of our pleasures than in the amount.

The earth laughs in flowers.

As a cure for worrying,

work is better than whiskey.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Nature is the incarnation of thought.

The world is the mind precipitated.

A man is usually more careful of his money

than he is of his principles.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life

that no one can sincerely try to help another

without helping himself.

The reason why men do not obey us,

is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The greatest delight which the fields

and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

The civilized man has built a coach,

but has lost the use of his feet.

In all my lectures,

I have taught one doctrine,

namely,

the infinitude of the private man.

In art, the hand can never execute anything

higher than the heart can imagine.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body;

in the evening,

only with his legs.

If a man can...

make a better mousetrap,

the world will make a beaten,

path to his door.

As long as a man stands in his own way,

everything seems to be in his way.

People that seem so glorious are all show;

underneath they are like everyone else.