Quotes by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre.....

Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve....

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard....

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

A great man is always willing to be little.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.