We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. – Ralph Waldo Emerson