Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never lose an opportunity for seeing anything that is beautiful; For beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists. — 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
Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — 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
