When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and make a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise. — 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
