Favorite quotes

"A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women." Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold"
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Fiction reveals the truth that reality obscures."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting." Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"The student is to read history actively not passively."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Believe what you set your heart upon for it surely shall be yours."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. "
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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

 

"The never-ending task of self improvement."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson