People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. – Ralph Waldo Emerson