"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.












A man in debt is so far a slave.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
"Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!
"A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
"When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
"Science does not know its debt to imagination.
"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 ...
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
"Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
"The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
"In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impert...