“A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.”
History
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
“The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.”
The Conduct of Life, Behaviour
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.”
The Divinity College Address (1838)
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”
English Traits, Race
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
“Music is the poor man's Parnassus.”
Poetry and Imagination
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“A nation never falls but by suicide.”
The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Essays, First Series
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”
Greatness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.”
The Comic
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”
Experience
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Goethe; or, the Writer,” pp. 271-272
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
The Comic
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together
To make up a year,
And a sphere.”
Fable http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/fable.htm
1840s, Poems (1847)
The Natural History of Intellect (1893)
“The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance