Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

God enters by a private door into every individual.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.