Emerson Quotes

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Things are in the saddle and ride mankind.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.