1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Taste]
A man is related to all nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Nature]
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Anger]
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Individuality]
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Genius]
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Action]
A man's library is a sort of harem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Libraries]
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Faults]
A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Voice]
A man's what he thinks about all day long
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Thoughts and Thinking]
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Wives]
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Intelligence and Intellectuals]
A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Thoughts and Thinking]
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Success]
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Friends and Friendship]
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Virtue]
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Acceptance]
Accept your genius and say what you think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Genius]
Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Action]
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – [Patience]
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