Quotes By Person: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.”

-Address Delivered in Concord on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, August 1, 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Far or forgot to me is near,
Shadow and sunlight are the same,
The vanished gods to me appear,
And one to me are shame and fame.”

-Brahma, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”

-Friendship Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

-Journals, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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