The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor…

“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

“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go…

— Herman Melville

I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from…

— Noam Chomsky

Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

— Rainn Wilson

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

— Lorenz Font

“Environmentalist Paul Hawken, in the 2009 commencement address to the University of Portland, said, “Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if…

— Paul J. Pastor

President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes…

— Heber J. Grant

“It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into…

— John Muir

“things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought, and character, Deceive us, seeming to be many things,…

— Laura K. Cowan

“Remember, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Don’t be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

“Don't follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson”

— Anonymous

“Ralph Waldo Emerson had this truth in mind when he said (in his essay on Compensation), “If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him…

— Napoleon Hill

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson”

— Improve Life Books

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr