Ralph Waldo Emerson Should Quotations

Your work should be in praise of what you love.

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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

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

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

Education should be as broad as man.

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

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

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

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

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

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

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

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.

A man should carry nature in his head.

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