Age Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature abhors the old.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever there is power there is age.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All diseases run into one, old age.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson