Ralph Waldo Emerson
137 quotes by this author.
Power and speed be hands and feet.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.