We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be our own before we can be another's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are comes to you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson