" The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥3 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥3 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥3 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥4 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥2 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥2 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" These rabble at Washington ... see, against the unanimous expression of the people, how much a little well-directed effrontery can achieve, how much crime the people will bear, and they proceed from step to step... (Journal, June 1846)" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥4 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥3 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Journals, 1843" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥2 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥14 Share +1 Pin TweetLife
" By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥3 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥4 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥3 Share +1 Pin TweetFriendship
" Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥3 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥2 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥3 Share +1 Pin TweetFriendship
" Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥11 Share +1 Pin TweetLife
" Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥2 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥3 Share +1 Pin TweetFriendship
" When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥2 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥2 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥1 Share +1 Pin Tweet
" You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥1 Share +1 Pin Tweet