Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim. — 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
