Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

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

“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”

“Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”

“Our best thoughts come from others.”

“A great man is always willing to be little.”

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”

“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

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

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

“Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”

“Nature always wears the colours of the spirit.”

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore.”

“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

“The first wealth is health.”

“Money often costs too much.”

“America is another name for opportunity.”

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”