The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote Biography
American minister who left the ministry to pursue a career in writing