Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat men to whom a crises which intimidates and paralyzes the majority comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.

Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

America is a country of young men.

A good indignation brings out all ones powers.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

The flowering of geometry.

When we quarrel how we wish we had been blameless.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Beauty without expression tires.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.

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