Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between two people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
