Quotes about Emerson
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only gift is a portion of thyself.... it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson said, "The soul contains the event that shall befall it.
- Norman Vincent Peale
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No sensible person ever made an apology.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
- 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
Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?
- CS Lewis
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson