The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next… — 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
