Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The key to every man is his thought.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

It is one soul which animates all men.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.