"Ralph Waldo Emerson"の名言

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ⎯ is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

We are wiser than we know.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.