Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

All diseases run into one, old age.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Every artist was first an amateur.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

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

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

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.