Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to… — 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
