Emerson Quotes

Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will ...

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferab...

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison i...

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuni...

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisf...

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that i...

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some ...

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.