We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait. — 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
