Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
- 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
Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is related to all nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson