Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.