Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win… — 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