Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

It is the soundness of the bones that ultimates itself in the peach- bloom complexion.

He thought it happier to be dead, to die for beauty, than live for bread.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.