For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Tis not important how the hero does this or this, but what he is. What he is will appear in every gesture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
