God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson