Quotes by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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

Money often costs too much.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in....

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

Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the....

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion,....

The only gift is a portion of thyself.