Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But if there be a country which cannot stand any one of these tests, — a country where knowledge cannot be diffused… — 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
