Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Society we must have; but let it be society, and not exchanging news or eating from the same dish. Is it society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons. — 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 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
