She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade… — 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
Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. — 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
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
