"Ralph Waldo Emerson"の名言

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is to have succeeded.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

When there is no vision, people perish.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd; Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.

Love, and you shall be loved.

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.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.