Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison...

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so...

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time...

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best...

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom...

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson