Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

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

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.