Ralph Waldo Emerson Should Quotations

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

Your work should be in praise of what you love.

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

Education should be as broad as man.

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

A man should carry nature in his head.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?