The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm. There is beauty of a concert, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with 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
