If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
