Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first wealth is health.

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

There is properly no history only biography.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors and a misfit from the start.

The cultivated man wise to know and bold to perform is the end to which nature works.

We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist.

The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!

When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.