Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.