Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do, but inside, the terrible freedom!

Our temperatures differ in capacity of heat, or we boil at different degrees.

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

The less America looks abroad, the grander its promise.

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.

America is a country of young men.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists with delight, Whilst his files sweep round […]

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor’s creed has lent. We all boil at different degrees.