"Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.












It is not the length of life, but the depth.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"a man only knows what he's experienced
"The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
"Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
"In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening only with his legs.
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue...
"When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope t...
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
"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...
"Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like man...
"My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
"The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average ten...
"The life of truth is cold.