A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered… — 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
