Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man is the head of the house but the woman is the neck that turns the head.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson