Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mankind love a lover.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.