Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. — 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
