"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.











Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
"A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
"When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
"God enters by a private door into every individual.
"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
"Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to ...
"Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
"Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
"There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
"A man in debt is so far a slave.
"Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God with...
"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.