We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The years in your life are less important than the life in your years. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you… — 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
