Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

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

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

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.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.