Quote

The uses of travel are occasional, and short but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation and this is a main function of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
Diarist
Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Fruit
Function
Travel
Conversation
Short
Occasional
Use
Uses
Best
Finds
Life
Main

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image
The eye is the best of artists.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Nature tells every secret once.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
It is one soul which animates all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Life is to be lived, not controlled.
Ralph Waldo Emerson