Quotes about Emerson

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

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

Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.