Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer. Quotes
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... "Beware of me," it says, "but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.
The world makes way for a man who knows where he is going.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.