Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

Every time you wink the stars move.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

a man only knows what he's experienced

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Imitation is suicide.

Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.