Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

'Tis good-will makes intelligence.

'Tis good-will makes intelligence.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

And striving to be Man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.

And striving to be Man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once
a poem.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once
a poem.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted
until within this century.
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The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted
until within this century.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.