Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal. >>

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the as >>

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. >>

Quotations about Self-expression

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy >>

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serv >>

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out >>

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo