It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. — 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
