Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put… — 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
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the… — 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
