When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose. — 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
