Ralph Waldo Emerson Faults Quotations

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.