241 Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson


The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on friendship

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on friendship

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on friendship

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on friendship

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on future

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on gardening

God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on god

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on god

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on god

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on god

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on god

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on god

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on good

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on good

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on good

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on good

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on good

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on good

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on good

Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on good