Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear with its hopes and invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner, that is, must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall see nothing, learn nothing, keep nothing.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,--why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

So far as a man thinks, he is free.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson