The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He who is not every day conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay… — 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
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do… — 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
