Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

This filthy enactment (The Fugitive Slave Law) was made in the nineteenth century, by people who could read and write. I will not obey it, by God.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

To believe in luck – is skepticism.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

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

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Let me go where’ er I will I hear a sky-born music still: It sounds from all things old, It sounds from all things young, From all that’s fair… Peals out a cheerful song. It is not only in the rose, It is not only in the bird, Not only where the rainbow glows, Nor […]

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.