The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Old Age
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All diseases run into one, old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Old Age
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Anger
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Art
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Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick - In Business
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick - In On Change
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Dreams
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Education
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The years teach much which the days never knew.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Experience
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Friendship
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Friendship
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Friendship
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Friendship
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Intelligence
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If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
- Emerson M. Pugh - In Intelligence
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Life
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All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Life
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Life
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All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Love
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Marriage
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Nature
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Nature
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Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Nature
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Nature
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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Nature
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Nature
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Nature
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Nature
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Nature
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Peace
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Politics
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A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick - In Religion
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Science
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Science
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - In Science
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