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“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series

“Money often costs too much.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Chapter 3, “Wealth,” p. 107

“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Nature and Selected Essays

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Demonology
1880s, Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Progress of Culture Phi Beta Kappa Address (July 18, 1867) <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=category&amp;sectionid=5&amp;id=74&amp;Itemid=149 (1876)

“Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“We are wiser than we know.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do the thing and you will have the power.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is known by the books he reads.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Self Reliance

“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Art

“Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Essays: First Series

Source: Essays: First Series

“As we grow old… the beauty steals inward.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Books are for nothing but to inspire”

Ralph Waldo Emerson