Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory consists not in falling, but in rising every time we fall.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
