Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius.

Envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

All mankind love a lover.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

To fill the hour,—that is happiness

The years teach much which the days never know.