Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

To believe in luck - is skepticism.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.