Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it. >>

To fill the hour -- that is happiness. >>

Thought makes every thing fit for use. >>

Quotations about Self-reliance

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward effor >>

No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong. >>

You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense >>

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo