Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Every man is a borrower and a mimic life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them ones self?

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.

You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man own land the land owns him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening only with his legs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Out of sleeping a waking Out of waking a sleep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.