Ralph Waldo Emerson Keys Quotations

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

The key to every man is his thought.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.