The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always safety in valor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson