Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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

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

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.