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“The sun shines today also.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature

Source: Nature

“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Though thou loved her as thyself,
As a self of purer clay,
Tho' her parting dims the day,
Stealing grace from all alive,
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give All to Love, st. 4
1840s, Poems (1847)

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Source: The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Widely attributed to Emerson on the internet, this actually originates with &quot;What is Success?” http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/emerson/Ephemera/Success.html by Bessie Anderson Stanley in Heart Throbs Volume Two (1911) edited by Joseph Mitchell Chapple. <br class="br">Misattributed

“Oh, tenderly the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with fire.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ode, Concord, July 4, 1857
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature

Source: Nature

“If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Brahma

Brahma http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&amp;p=c&amp;a=p&amp;ID=20567&amp;c=323, st. 1. <br class="br">Composed in July 1856 this poem is derived from a major passage of the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most popular of Hindu scriptures, and portions of it were likely a paraphrase of an existing translation. Though titled &quot;Brahma&quot; its expressions are actually more indicative of the Hindu concept &quot;Brahman&quot; <br class="br">1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867) <br class="br">Variant: If the red slayer think he slays, <br> Or if the slain think he is slain, <br> They know not well the subtle ways <br> I keep, and pass, and turn again.

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Conservative http://www.rwe.org/the-conservative/ (1842)

“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Variant: I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines. I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company.
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance